“I felt like I'd walked into an American teen movie," she said in an interview with Vanity Fair. "I picked up the red cups. I was like, Wow, they really do drink from these.

“It was just awful,” she said oif her first days at the hallowed school. “I was like, I must be mad. Why am I doing this?”

She's finding her way, hanging out with some nice boys from the crew team, taking a drama class and reportedly dating a Spanish student named Rafael Cebrián, who plays in a rock band and dabbles in acting, too.

And if you would think that Hollywood's highest-paid actress of 2009 and the star of a $5.4 billion movie franchise would have an edge in acting class, think again.

Growing up Muggle: Goodbye, Harry Potter

With the typical freshman woes behind her, Watson has settled in and is enjoying her studies and life as an Ammerican college kid.

“I was scared before I came to Brown—that I wasn't going to be allowed to have both [a career and a normal life]. People would think that I didn't deserve to have both. [I was afraid they'd think], You're famous. You're given free handbags. Why should you deserve to be normal?”

Published at 9:45 AM EDT on May 5, 2010 | Updated at 10:00 AM EDT on May 5, 2010